A collective of self-described “Gay furry hackers” called SiegedSec managed to hack into the right-wing Heritage Foundation affiliated with Project 2025 in a massive cyber attack.
The hackers released two gigabytes of data, including Heritage Foundation member names, email addresses, passwords, and usernames. SiegedSec claimed responsibility for the hack on Telegram, sharing that they breached online databases and secured 200GB worth of files from the right-wing think tank, which included passwords and user information for “every user” in the database.
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Source: Yahoo News
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